What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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